The point you're missing is that I don't care at all about Windows. I asked a question about Linux/Unix. If there is no application for Linux then I'm fine with that, but save me your pointless and trite crusade for Windows. I just want to know if there is a solution for Linux.
I think the point you've been missing in all your posts is that Windows is a restrictive, slow, and unstable operating system. I will be the first to admit there are good reasons to use Windows. But those reasons aren't for me nor my wife (I hate to speak for her, but she's at work right now and doesn't have access to a computer). I posted to slashdot to see if anyone had an answer to my question (I found some good replies already) NOT to have someone tell me I should be using Windows. Don't you think I would have explored this option already. If you're looking for a debate on which is a better operating system Linux or Windows, then perhaps you should post your own question to "ask slashdot".
Well actually, she does a lot of other things. In fact, her two biggest applications are web browsing and office. For browsing she prefers mozilla to ie and for office she prefers open office to microsoft office (after a small adjustment period).
Of course, you might ask why I don't just install these on windows. Well, mainly, because she has an old machine with a celeron processor, and both windows 98 and 2000 ran horribly on it. Her machine was crashing at least a couple of times a week. I have now installed Linux on it, and it runs beautifully. So, although she would like to get a replacement for this one application, overall she's happier with Linux than she was with Windows.
Certainly, first when she has a problem with her machine I have a much better chance of fixing it with Linux than Windows. Secondly, I want to use her machine as well as my own, and let's just say I'm not a Windows enthusiast. Third, using Gnome and Nautilus (although it's slow) gives a user-friendly desktop which in many ways resembles the Windows interface. Fourth, open office, abiword, and gnumeric are all good replacements of microsoft office.
Really, the only problem I see with her using Linux is that there are a few applications which Linux doesn't have an equivalent of (or doesn't have a user-friendly equivalent of). I don't agree with some of the other posts, that maintain these aren't important applications for Linux. If Linux is ever going to become a mainstream OS then it's going to need to offer these applications (if you don't want them, then don't install them).
So, I guess the bottom line of my rambling is, why shouldn't I try to convince my wife to switch from Windows to Linux?
Although the decision may be morally the correct one in this case, I don't see how it can stand up constitutionally. What if the guy's name was really Peter Frampton (rather than Lyle) and it was just his homepage. From the article it appears that he still would have had the site taken from him, just because some "celebrity" shares the same name as him. Are non-celebrities second-class citizens?
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The point you're missing is that I don't care at all about Windows. I asked a question about Linux/Unix. If there is no application for Linux then I'm fine with that, but save me your pointless and trite crusade for Windows. I just want to know if there is a solution for Linux.
I think the point you've been missing in all your posts is that Windows is a restrictive, slow, and unstable operating system. I will be the first to admit there are good reasons to use Windows. But those reasons aren't for me nor my wife (I hate to speak for her, but she's at work right now and doesn't have access to a computer). I posted to slashdot to see if anyone had an answer to my question (I found some good replies already) NOT to have someone tell me I should be using Windows. Don't you think I would have explored this option already. If you're looking for a debate on which is a better operating system Linux or Windows, then perhaps you should post your own question to "ask slashdot".
Well actually, she does a lot of other things. In fact, her two biggest applications are web browsing and office. For browsing she prefers mozilla to ie and for office she prefers open office to microsoft office (after a small adjustment period).
Of course, you might ask why I don't just install these on windows. Well, mainly, because she has an old machine with a celeron processor, and both windows 98 and 2000 ran horribly on it. Her machine was crashing at least a couple of times a week. I have now installed Linux on it, and it runs beautifully. So, although she would like to get a replacement for this one application, overall she's happier with Linux than she was with Windows.
Certainly, first when she has a problem with her machine I have a much better chance of fixing it with Linux than Windows. Secondly, I want to use her machine as well as my own, and let's just say I'm not a Windows enthusiast. Third, using Gnome and Nautilus (although it's slow) gives a user-friendly desktop which in many ways resembles the Windows interface. Fourth, open office, abiword, and gnumeric are all good replacements of microsoft office.
Really, the only problem I see with her using Linux is that there are a few applications which Linux doesn't have an equivalent of (or doesn't have a user-friendly equivalent of). I don't agree with some of the other posts, that maintain these aren't important applications for Linux. If Linux is ever going to become a mainstream OS then it's going to need to offer these applications (if you don't want them, then don't install them).
So, I guess the bottom line of my rambling is, why shouldn't I try to convince my wife to switch from Windows to Linux?
Although the decision may be morally the correct one in this case, I don't see how it can stand up constitutionally. What if the guy's name was really Peter Frampton (rather than Lyle) and it was just his homepage. From the article it appears that he still would have had the site taken from him, just because some "celebrity" shares the same name as him. Are non-celebrities second-class citizens?